Subject: RE: AXPpci 33 166MHz Mobo & parity RAM?
To: 'Chris Tribo' <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/07/2001 16:30:21
Not sure offhand, but it is newer than that. It's off the DEC Firmware v.5
(?) CD... FWIW, the sROM on the board is v0.3...

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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Chris Tribo [mailto:t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu]
-> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:13 AM
-> To: David Woyciesjes
-> Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
-> Subject: RE: AXPpci 33 166MHz Mobo & parity RAM?
-> 
-> 
-> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:
-> 
-> > -> -----Original Message-----
-> > -> From: Chris Tribo [mailto:ctribo@del.net]
-> > -> 
-> > ->     FWIW, output will go to serial console if any one of 
-> > -> {keyboard, mouse, frame buffer} are not present. I had a
-> > -> keyboard and a video  card, and it still switched to the
-> > -> serial console on the PS/2 mouse &&  keyboard model of
-> > -> the motherboard. Now I just need to directly attach that 3" 
-> > -> fan to the heatsink...
-> > -> 
-> > ->     Yay for BSD!
-> > -> 
-> > ->     Chris
-> > 
-> > Chris ---
-> > 	I have to respectfully disagree here. My AXPpci33 has 
-> the PS2 mouse
-> > & keyboard, and _will_ booot to console with only the 
-> keyboard and display
-> > connected (no mouse). Same as my Multias...
-> 
-> 	Well mine won't. Do you know what version of the console you're
-> using? I just remember mine being built in late 1994 V3.1 maybe. It's
-> written down at home. I saw printed on the console *** no 
-> mouse connected
-> switching to serial console *** at each boot.
-> 
-> 
-> 
-> 	Chris
->